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Deleting a user is just a couple of clicks on Word Press - though it was not my intention to take entire threads away at the same time. Apologies if this has occurred. I also deleted the thread following the request and a related discussion as they were both a bit catty and I hoped NB might put this behind us.

Was actually in two minds about whether to grant the request, and if the feeling is that I should have left things as they were, I may do that if something like this should ever come up again.

Thank you, I think you were in an impossible position and managed it as well as you could. Is it possible to have a contact to admin on the site as it would prevent this happening again, as Wayland could have kept his request private.

It's very hard to gauge when someone is being serious on a satirical site with all the cut and thrust that goes on here. Also, having no knowledge of what now seems to have been difficult inter-relationships makes previous attempts at light-hearted humour seem a bit spiteful. So apologies if the second discussion was unhelpful. That wasn't my intention. I'll come back when there's more love in the room.

It was a tough decision, and it remains the owner's prerogative to do what he likes here.

But, I would argue that if a reporter wrote something for a real (paper) newspaper, then could he demand that the owner should take back all the copies ? Obviously "no" - once it's out there it should remain out there, unless some law's been broken, and not on a whim. I enjoyed wayland's work, and now it's gone.

Sinnick - at a real newspaper you are a paid employee and the newspaper retains copyright of everything you produce while in their employment. Here it specifically states that you retain copyright of anything you post. So if somebody really wanted to they could probably claim that not removing posts when asked constitutes breach of copyright.

Anyway, like you said, let's move on. I'm disappointed that the Dominos pizza smoothie is lost forever :-(